Boston College Grad Conference
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College is holding a graduate conference, Exile: narratives of exclusion and belonging that will take place in Chestnut Hill, MA on March 31, 2023-April 1, 2023. Please kindly circulate to your graduate students the attached call for papers. If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email at rll@bc.edu […]
Bianconi Publishes 2 Book Chapters
Celia Bianconi, Master Lecturer in Portuguese, has contributed chapters to two recent books. For Conexões o Ensino de Portugueês no Estados Unidos, a study of the reasons students in the U.S. choose to learn Portuguese, she wrote the sixth chapter, titled “Motivação no aprendizado da língua portuguesa nos Estados Unidos: Um instrumento de reflexão curricular.” […]
Pomfret School – French Teacher
My name is Martha Horst, and I am the dean of faculty at Pomfret School, which is an independent boarding high school. We recently had a French teacher resign and are looking to hire someone to teach between 2 and 4 classes. If someone graduated this December and could be available to help out, or […]
Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa
The call for papers for the thematic dossier “The Book in its time: places, materials, forms and techniques”, is open until 20 January 2023. “The Book is a phenomenon that combines the fascination of its manifestations of yesteryear to the current debates and practices that announce future paths and dilemmas. We propose in this call an […]
Indiana University – Director of French Language Instruction
The Department of French and Italian at Indiana University – Bloomington invites applications from creative, energetic and collaborative candidates committed to innovating, enhancing and expanding the strengths of its French Language Instruction program. This is a full-time (10 months), benefits-eligible position at the rank of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in French with a three-year renewable […]
Esferas (NYU)
Esferas is the undergraduate-run journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. The mission of our journal is to create a shared space for creations and critical essays both by the undergraduate and graduate student body and by established authors, artists and critics. We publish the journal online and in print; you can […]
BU Romance Studies at ACTFL
Romance Studies language programs were well represented at the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, November 18-20. Fourteen Lecturers and graduate students shared their expertise on a wide variety of topics. Célia Bianconi co-presented “Conversa Fiada”, “chitchat in Portuguese, which arose from the “need to provide […]
Hernandez & Prikhodko Present at ACTFL
Rosana Hernandez and Evgeniya Prikhodko, graduate students in Hispanic Language & Literatures and French Language & Literature, respectively, presented their collaborative work at the annual conference of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), which took place in Boston, November 18-21. Their talk, entitled ‘Improving Presentational Writing Through Visual Tasks: Instagram Post and […]
Journal Publishes Section on Jim Carter Book
The Italian journal SigMa has published a special section dedicated to the reception, within literary and cinema studies, of Jim Carter’s book Italian Industrial Literature and Film (Peter Lang, 2021). The section includes a short response from Carter and a contribution from co-curator Lorenzo Marmo. Read it here. Carter is a Lecturer in Italian at […]
Brown University Graduate Conference
Corporeal Conversations / Conversations corporelles March 10-11, 2023 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote: Dr. Nora Martin Peterson Associate Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre” announces Michel de Montaigne to the readers of his autobiographical Essais. While initially speaking to the […]